Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimovwas an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 January 1920
CityPetrovichi, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.
[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.